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Yes that's my thoughts too. What's interesting is that they made a switch after a while.

We all know that some of the link juice dies with 301's but I suspect that with a 302 you would keep the link juice.

I removed the "sensitive content" i think because of that it showed up.. for me also it shows up some times now but not always

I dont think we have that in SEOMOZ, but hey you can always request this feature over the HELPDESK (look to your upper right corner, open a new ticket on helpdesk)

Hey James - I am curious as to why you think a 'canonical tag' wouldn't be a "long term fix"?

Hi Guys, Thanks for the input, some really good advise. I'll take your information on board and that into practice. Cheers...

First thing first, where do you get that number from? is it from alexa ? or google analytics ? or any other sources? In my opinion if you had a bounce rate that high showed up on google analytics, than you really need to made a further research where this bouncing visitors are coming from Other than that, i would suggest you to improve your overall site design , some of the reason is explained here ( http://www.seomoz.org/blog/replicate-googles-panda-questionnaire-whiteboard-friday ), a site that looked good potentially attract customer and encourage them to stay a while and surf deeper  .. (unless of course if your website is nike.com , where the brand trust can easily overshadow the lack of good site design)

one option is to have all ad code in separate files that get loaded  on page-view, through an include.  If you then place all ad files in their own folder, you can then noindex the entire folder in the robots.txt file. Engineering and Marketing go hand - in - hand regarding SEO.  What engineers say is "impossible" regarding SEO is due to their lack of specific methodology and the human condition that tends to cause people to instantly conclude that if they have never done it, never seen it done, or never been shown, then it must be impossible. This is an existential concept common with people who are extremely logic oriented.  Rather than arguing, it's much more efficient to do the research, and find the answers.  Only at that point is it then wise to go back and say - here's a way it can be done.  Show them links to actual blog articles or discussion forum pages where the topic is discussed, if need be. It comes down to understanding that it's a teaching moment, with no ego involved.  Purely educating others, so everyone can work together for the common good.

is there a simple code I put somewhere in there? RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L] replace "mysite" with the name of your site do you see on there that he says its important to leave trailing / on folders Generally speaking a URL that ends in a slash represents a folder. A URL that ends without a slash represents a page or file. With respect to www or non-www, there is absolutely no preference from a pure SEO perspective. Either way you chose I would use the http:// prefix as it represents the complete URL.

Hi, Thanks for the message. So, really, a site that is the advertiser is not going to get link juice off of it's affiliate program even if it uses a hosted solution, instead of CJ? Thanks...

Ralph, I would not suggest "switching" to uk but adding uk. A web page written for UK English will look differently then a page written for US English. Words such as "center" vs "centre", references to London vs references to Washington, monetary units, systems of measurement "miles" vs "kilometers", etc. If you want to improve your UK rankings, offer a UK section of your site, adjust your articles specifically for the UK and obtain links from the UK pointed to this part of your site. If you perform these steps properly you will definitely improve your UK rankings. I'm trying to weigh up whether it is worth the effort of changing it. Only you can answer that question. It depends on how many pages are involved, the quality of your content and your site's profitability.

yes , so never ever take it down, especially when the old site has many backlinks to it already ...

Thanks Yumi, I'll take a look at the CSV files so see if I notice any patterns.

The crawling is only for PRO members (though that does include members on a free trial). If you want to crawl more than once a week, check out our crawl test tool at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test.

Looks like they're being real selective at this early stage. http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/05/comparison-ads-now-part-of-new-google.html "At this time, AdWords Comparison Ads remains available only to a limited number of advertisers. Over time, we hope to increase the availability of Comparison Ads to additional advertisers. You can find more information about AdWords Comparison Ads in our Help Center." I can't find anything more specific than that. Barry at Search Engine Roundtable keeps a close eye on things like this, and would be one to blog about it when it's opened up for more people.

Definitely explains it! Thanks

If you have specific links which appear in OSE but not in Google, you can open a ticket with the SEOmoz help desk requesting more information. They can look at the OSE data and help determine if there is an issue with the Linkscape tool, or whether the data appears valid. Keep in mind the link could have been there a month ago when the crawl was performed and the page has changed since then. As far as removing the links, the only course of action you have is to contact the webmasters involved with the links. If they choose to remove the links, they can help. If they choose not to honor your request, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Anyone with a website can make a link with the anchor text "this site sucks" and there is nothing you can do about it.